Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
It’s against the rules of humanity to believe there is nothing we can do.
As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
I will not live by rules that make no sense to me
Men with common minds seldom break through general rules. Prudence is ever the resort of weakness; and they rarely go as far as as they may in any undertaking, who are determined not to go beyond it on any account.
We only have one rule and that is there are no rules, so stand up and sing as much as you want to.
Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.
Does fate ever play by the rules?
Socialist is not a human but animal - because human differs from animal in this that he has moral rules, and reds, as their program states they disobey them.
It's a strange new world out there and the rules have changed: It's every princess for herself.
You want to invent new ideas, not rules
I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs.
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.
Break the rules, stand apart, ignore your head, and follow your heart.
Everything I've done has always been my own made up world with its own rules and its own made up stories.
Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.
Habit rules the unreflecting herd.